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| Fayyad vows to continue West Bank security clampdown |
| 2007-12-30 |
| Ma'an – Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad renewed his government's pledge to clamp down on security chaos in the West Bank on Saturday. His comments come a day after Palestinian fighters killed two Israeli settlers in a drive-by shooting near the city of Hebron. Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians following the attack. Fayyad toured the northern West Bank city of Nablus at noon on Saturday. Nablus is the flagship of a new Western-backed security plan that allows Palestinian Authority (PA) troops to redeploy after years of Israeli attacks. Israeli forces still raid the city and its surrounding areas frequently. Under the US-sponsored Road Map peace plan, the PA is obligated to dismantle Palestinian resistance groups in exchange for an Israeli halt to settlement construction. Fayyad also pledged that his government would pay all PA's employees, yet he did not specify a date for when salaries would be disbursed. Earlier on Saturday, Fayyad visited the city of Tulkarem, the second city to be included in the new security plan. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Were his lips moving? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2007-12-30 13:25 |